essay
The Hohokam: the who and the why
hohokam millennium • Santa Fe, N.M. • Published In 2007 • Pages: 140-146
By: Gumerman, George J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gumerman provides a summary of the changes within Hohokam society. Gumerman believes it was social and religious institutions as seen in the iconography that united the Hohokam across their territory. He also mentions the repatriating Snaketown artifacts to the Gila River Indian Community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Sociocultural trends
- Visual arts
- Tribe and nation
- Artifact and archive collections
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2300-500 BP (300 BC-AD 1500)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- George J. Gumerman
- For bibliographical references see document 89:Fish and Fish
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2007024336
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture--Arizona--Phoenix
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona--Phoenix
- Phoenix (Ariz.)--Antiquities